A reporter who cannot sort out his love life, treats his work in the field as an escape from the problems. It is the difficult childhood that is the source of the problems. Intrigued by the mystery of almost completely remote village on the edge of the world, where the natives are hostile towards
Armagnac Jardineux, the son of a Louisiana planter family, travels to Europe to study and sample all the pleasures that the Old World has to offer. The Civil War begins back home, separating him from his family and their money. Soon, both are gone. Left alone in London, he drowns his despair in
